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Category Archives: LITERATURE
LITERATURE: Flatland – Metaphor
This concept may be very familiar to mathematicians but to me it was a flash: Although popularly everyone called a Circle is deemd a Circle, yet among the better educated Classes it is known that no Circle is really a … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Flatland – Statement on Man
If a man with a Triangular front and a polygonal back were allowed to exist and to propagate a still more Irregular posterity, what would become of the arts of life? (p. 24) None but the perfect need be. Survival … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: The Resource
Our little Burlington library, where I am now on the e-mail list of patrons and where I shall be emboweled with racks and racks of books that beg me to take them home in two more weeks. Around the right, … Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Flatland – Presentation
The concept of this story is phenomenal because it is based upon a simple premise of figures and angles, the whole being personfied into Flatland and its inhabitants. I would of course love most to know how this idea came … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Flatland – On Genital Bias
Gender, sure, but what’s the difference when the physical difference is so surely the reason in Flatland: To my readers in Spaceland, the condition of our Women may seem truly deplorable, and so indeed it is. A Male of the … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: October Sale Days
Getting hopped up for the Burlington Library Book Sale and frankly, without the bias of it being my own town these folks seem to have a higher literary acknowledgement judging from the books available versus a couple of the surrounding … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Flatland – The Film
Isn’t he just adorable? This might be something cool–Flatland, the film might just be something I’d like to get a hold of and do a comparison of both medium and culture, especially since there’s over a century between the writing … Continue reading
LITERATURE: Flatland – Statement
Hah! It wasn’t his educational reputation he was worried about, nor political and social shunning. Edwin Abbott originally published Flatland under a pseudonym. I strongly suspect it was for his very life he feared once this got out: Not that … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Flatland – Dimension
What’s so great about this novel is that it illustrates its points in dimensioning, i.e., a triangle or square is drawn as a figure. In Flatland, these actual figures are seen only as straight lines and the image of triangle, … Continue reading Continue reading
REALITY? & LITERATURE: Life and Art
There are tragedies that seem so heartbreaking that nothing could surpass them. Yet for some people it is compounded by a series of events that one minute, one step in a different direction, one thought, might have kept them from … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: The Life of Geronimo Sandoval – And the Beatles
Related to the previous posting on how life sequences can often be encapsulated in lyrics, I found too that readings often require what is commonly called suspension of disbelief, that is, willingness to accept the possibilities, therefore effectively squelching that … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: Flatland – Metaphor
Abbott seems to have something to say about culture and society in his own world of four dimensions and is getting it said via Square’s description of Flatland: Rarely–in proportion to the vast numbers of Isoceles births–is a genuine and … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Flatland – Politics
How many authors have I read now that had been writing under threat of political persecution–Boethius, Aristotle, Voltaire, Bulgakov. And now, while Abbott is not under such, his character of Square, the narrator of this story ends up there evidently … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Up Next – Flatland
How could I put back upon the shelf a book wherein circles talk to squares? This short novel by Edwin A. Abbott looks to be the perfect followup to The Life of Geronimo Sandoval. Again, I may not quite catch … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: Selection
In browsing I’m getting the general feeling of wanting a short reading, though I’m not certain I want a short story collection right now. There are a few I’m considering: Edwin Abbott’s Flatland, since it would tie in nicely with … Continue reading Continue reading
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